- Seller Inventory #: 005408
- Book condition: Good/Fair Chipped Edges.
- Illustrator: Illus. color Frontis. & b/w Photographs
- Edition: No Other Date
- Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
- Place: London
- Date published: 1944
- Keywords: Women
London: Adam & Charles Black. Good/Fair Chipped Edges.. 1944. No Other Date. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Large 8vo picture book style. DJ worn/taped, scuffed. Covers little warped and worn. Front endpaper missing. Contents mostly clean and nice. Title page lightly spotted, and previous owner's blind stamp on title page as well. .
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
chipped : A defect in which small pieces missing from the edges.
title page : A page where the title of the book, the author's name and publication information usually appear.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
endpaper : The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after printing. One side is glued to the inner portion of the boards (the paste-down) and the other is left loose (free endpaper).
